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like a niqaabi
all you see

is my
eyes

follow
your circuit

i hijab my
lust

wrap it up
so you wont

be offended

when i dream
of you.

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saaleha

I am a writer and photographer (look up my work on www.shootcake.com) based in Johannesburg, South Africa. I have an MA in Creative Writing from the university currently known as Rhodes. My writing accolades include winning the 2014 Writivism Short Story Prize and the 2020 Ingrid Jonker Poetry Prize for my debut collection, Zikr.

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